Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    Lots of older databases had fixed length fields, and you had to pad it if it was smaller. VARCHAR is a relatively new thing. So it’s not just saving space, but that old databases tended to force the issue.

    Nobody has an excuse today. Even Cobol has variable length strings.